The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status of Students’ Families And Their Academic Attainment: The Case of Secondary Schooling in the State of Kuwait. | ||
| العلوم التربوية | ||
| Volume 29, Issue 1 - Serial Number 5, January 2021, Pages 1-17 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ssj.2021.286790 | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr. Bader Ghannam Alsuwaileh | ||
| جامعة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract: This research examined whether the socioeconomic status of students’ parents can predict their academic attainment at secondary schools. Using a questionnaire survey on a sample of 303 students who were chosen randomly, the findings revealed that the following predictors are significant contributors to 27.5% (R square) of the explained variance in secondary school academic performance: Parents’ education: the higher the education level of the students’ parents, the higher their academic attainment. Parents’ occupation: the children of parents who are professional or administrative workers performed academically better compared with their counterparts whose parents are clerical or service workers. Family size: the larger the size of the family, the lower the students’ academic performance. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: socioeconomic; status; academic attainment | ||
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